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The two computers that made Apple

The Vergecast

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Bob Cook: The Story of the Lisa

The documentary follows the story of Apple's Lisa computer, which was canned in 1985. The film also focuses on a man named Bob Cook who became an Apple dealer and is part of the "Other half" of theLisa story. Steve Jobs' role in leading the development and kind of sabotaging it and then walking away from it has been well-documented. But there are still questions about why Apple would choose to bury its computers at a landfill.

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